New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people
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New Zealand Bans Puberty Blockers for Trans Youth
A necessary protection from harmful experimentation, or discriminatory interference that will devastate transgender youth?
Above: New Zealand Health Minister Simeon Brown on March 7, 2024. Image credit: Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images
The Spin
Right narrative
New Zealand's puberty blocker ban is a crucial victory for protecting children from dangerous ideological experimentation. These drugs cause irreversible harm to bone density, fertility and brain development while activists bury contradictory studies. Common sense finally prevailed over woke madness.
Left narrative
The puberty blocker ban constitutes unlawful discrimination targeting transgender youth while allowing the same medication for cis children. This political interference ignores medical expertise and will lead to worsening mental health and increased suicidality among gender-diverse children and young people.